Michael Praetorius 's Musical Encyclopedia In the early 17th centurythe German composer, organist and music theorist
Michael Praetorius compiled the Syntagma Musicum , an encyclopedia cataloguing every aspect of music in his time. Andrew Manze dips into this book to create a picture of late Renaissance music-making, illustrated with works by Praetorius and his contemporaries.

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Beethoven's Cello Sonata in C, Op 102 No 1, is the focus of today's workshop session, recorded last month at the Royal Northern College of Music during the Manchester
International Cello Festival. Stephen Johnson isjoined by cellist Frans Helmerson and pianist Peter Frankl in this exploration of one of the most compact and original of Beethoven's late works.

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Jazz from Hell
2/3. Make a Jazz Noise Here
Charles Shaar Murray continues his exploration of the influence ofjazz on the music of Frank Zappa , focusing on the role of the star sidemen used by Zappa in his music. The series features interviews with many of these musicians, including Arthur Barrow , Adrian Belew , Mike Brecker , George Duke ,
Bruce Fowler , Ralph Humphrey , Tommy Mars , Patrick O'Hearn and Don Preston , and archive interviews with Zappa himself. Producer Robert Abel

Arabella Live from Covent Garden,
Stephanie Hughes presents Strauss's most romantic opera. Arabella, the daughter of an impoverished family, spurns her sophisticated Viennese suitors when she falls in love at first sight with an honest man from the provinces.
Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi Act
7.30 Interval: Opera Box
Stephanie Hughes and guests explore some of the themes of Arabella, and David Huckvale looks for clues in the letters between Strauss and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
8.00 Acts 2 and 3

Ian McMillan is at the Hay Festival of Literature. He hears a new short story by Jake Arnott which ties togetherthe death in the Tower of London of 15th-century Welsh hero Owain Glyndower 's daughter, the London Blitz and a painting by C Eliot Hodgkin. Plus performance poetry and Peter Blegvad 's impression of Hay-on-Wye. Producer Horatio Clare

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